The $500,000 that Senator Reid was "nice enough" to send the V&T project didn't come from the Vegas to Anaheim high speed rail funding as a commenter had reported. Thanks to some digging by an associate, it turns out this $500,000 came from S. 3261 of 2008.
One of my other chief complaints about federal funding is that you have to be a detective to figure it out. Despite Obama's claims of transparency, thing have not gotten better. Admittedly this $500,000 done while Bush was still in, but it was done by a committee and Harry Reid in the Democratically controlled Congress.
If you search for V&T in this document you will see a little insight into how the federal funding mechanism works. When you look at that doc and do the V&T search, notice that a poorly managed tourist railroad project sits among a list of seemingly worth projects. Heck, I'll save you the search, here is the sub-category that the Virginia and Truckee Gravy Train was funded under:
(sorry about the formatting, the recommended dollar amounts are likely on the right side of your screen in the green area. I will work on this formatting...)
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Project name Committeerecommendation
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146th Street Corridor Extension, Boone County, IN $500,000
159th and US 69 Interchange Improvements, Overland Park, KS 1,000,000
2300 West Upgrade, 1900 South to 2100 North, UT 1,000,000
5th and Market Street Transportation Improvements, PA 500,000
Advanced Bridge Safety Initiative, ME 500,000
Anchor Lake Project, MS 1,000,000
Ann Arbor-Detroit Regional Rail Project, MI 1,000,000
Artesia Road Bypass, MS 1,000,000
Barnes Crossing Road/Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge, MS 500,000
Bayside Promenade, ME 800,000
Bland Street Improvements, Bland, MO 300,000
Bonneville/Clark One-Way Couplet, NV 500,000
Bossier Parish Congestion Relief Plan, LA 1,000,000
Bridge over Brandywine Creek, PA 750,000
Campus Loop Road Extension for St. John Fisher College, NY 500,000
Cesar Chavez Blvd/Calexico-West Port of Entry Congestion Improvements, CA 3,000,000
City of Tuscaloosa Downtown Revitalization Project--University Blvd and Greensboro Avenue, AL 4,000,000
Cline Avenue Extension, East Chicago, IN 1,000,000
Clinton Street Bridge Replacement, Fort Wayne, IN 500,000
Coalfields Expressway, WV 5,000,000
Construction of Lafayette Interchange, MO 1,000,000
Cumberland Parkway/US 41 Expansion, GA 1,000,000
Decatur Downtown Streetscape Project, AL 350,000
Delaware Avenue Bridge, IA 500,000
East Texas Higher Speed Rail Feasibility Study, TX 300,000
Edward T. Breathitt (Pennyrile) Parkway Completion Project, KY 2,000,000
El Camino East/West Corridor, Winfield, LA 500,000
Establishment of Railroad Quiet Zones in the Town of Hamburg, NY 500,000
FM509 Extension, Harlingen, TX 500,000
Fort Drum Connector (I-81 to Fort Drum North Gate), NY 1,000,000
Freedom Road Transportation Improvement Project, PA 1,750,000
Gate and Intersection Improvements at Fort Lee, VA 1,000,000
Granite Falls Alternate Route, WA 2,500,000
Great Miami Boulevard Extension, OH 500,000
Harden Street Improvements--Phase II, SC 1,000,000
Hastings Bridge, MN 2,000,000
Highway 100 Extension from Edgewood Road to Highway 30, Cedar Rapids, IA 1,000,000
Highway 14-Waseca to Owatonna, MN 2,000,000
Highway 75 Revitalization Project, AL 250,000
Highway 9 Improvements, MS 3,000,000
Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, NJ 500,000
I-10 New Orleans East Upgrades, LA 200,000
I-12 Interchange at LA-16, Denham Springs, LA 750,000
I-295/76/42 Direct Connection, NJ 3,000,000
I-49 South, LA 2,000,000
I-5 to Hwy. 99W Connector, OR 3,000,000
I-540 Interchange Improvements, Washington and Benton Counties, AR 2,000,000
I-555 Access Road, Poinsett County, AR 2,000,000
I-69, Shreveport, LA 2,000,000
I-69, TN 500,000
I-69, TX 500,000
I-93 Kalispell Bypass, MT 3,000,000
I-95 Interchange at SR 202 (Butler Blvd.), FL 1,000,000
Improvements to the Route 60 Bridges over the James River, MO 1,000,000
Improvements to US Route 1 for access to York County Community College, ME 500,000
Improvements to US-54, Seward County, KS 1,000,000
Indian River Inlet Bridge, DE 2,000,000
Intersection Improvements on US 212 and US 81 and Improvements to US 81, SD 1,000,000
Intersection Safety Improvements, Olympia Fields, IL 500,000
Interstate 430/630: Interchange Modification, AR 3,000,000
Interstate 69/Great River Bridge: Highway 65-MS Highway 1, AR 3,000,000
Isabel Swamp Road, Washington Parish, LA 450,000
Joplin Downtown Revitalization, MO 1,000,000
K-7 Corridor Study from 183rd St to 119th Street in Olathe, KS 750,000
King Coal Highway, WV 5,000,000
LA-1 Goldenmeadow to Port Fourchon, LA 650,000
LA 28, Vernon Parish, LA 2,000,000
Lake Charles Riverfront Parkway Development Plan, LA 250,000
Lake Mead Parkway, Phase 2, NV 250,000
Little Bay Bridges/Spaulding Turnpike, NH 2,000,000
Longfellow Bridge Approach Gateway, Cambridge, MA 1,000,000
Martha/I-76 Connection, OH 500,000
McKinley/Riverside Avenues Safety Improvement Project, Muncie, IN 1,000,000
Melbourne International Access Road, FL 1,000,000
Milwaukee Intermodal Station Improvements to Train Shed and Platforms, WI 1,500,000
N.A. Sandifer Highway, MS 315,000
New Hampshire Department of Transportation, U.S. Route 4 Red List Bridge Repair, West Lebanon, NH 1,000,000
New York State Route 12 500,000
Niagara Falls International Railway Station/Intermodal Transportation Center, NY 500,000
Northside Drive, MS 2,000,000
Northwest Loop Access Road, Sandoval County, NM 1,000,000
Page Extension Phase II, MO 1,000,000
Park Avenue Multi-Use Trail, ME 800,000
Pennsylvania High-Speed Maglev Development Program, PA 1,000,000
Peters Road Extension, Plaquemines Parish, LA 650,000
Pinon Hills Boulevard East and Animas River Bridge, NM 1,000,000
Plaza del Sol Project, Village of Angel Fire, NM 350,000
Port Industrial Road Improvement Project, WA 4,000,000
Portsmouth Town Center Plan, RI 1,000,000
Reconstruction of Riverside Drive, CT 1,000,000
Redesign and Reconstruction of I-235 and Kellogg Interchange, Wichita, KS 500,000
Replacement of US-159 Bridge at Rulo, NE 1,200,000
ReTrac Project Enhancements, Reno, NV 250,000
Rickenbacker Intermodal East-West Connector, OH 300,000
Road improvements on Powderhouse Road from SD 42 to Madison Street, Sioux Falls, SD 3,000,000
Route 1/Route 123 Interchange Improvements, VA 1,000,000
Route 1 and Route 34 Connector, CT 500,000
Route 150, MO 1,000,000
Route 5 Improvements in Laclede and Camden Counties, MO 1,000,000
Salt Fork of the Red River Bridge Martha Crossing, OK 1,500,000
SE Connector, SE 6th Street to SE 14th Street (US 69), Des Moines, IA 1,500,000
Shiloh Road, MT 5,000,000
Slide Repair Work along US 60 in Eastern Kanawha County, WV 5,000,000
South Entrance Interchange at Mississippi State University, MS 1,000,000
Southwest Arterial, Dubuque, IA 1,000,000
St. John Medical Center--Broken Arrow Traffic Improvement, OK 250,000
Starkweather Creek Parkway Bike Path, WI 1,000,000
State Route 317, between I-75 and Collegedale in Hamilton County, TN 1,000,000
Steptoe Street Extension Project, WA 2,000,000
TH 610 from US 169 to I-94, Maple Grove, MN 1,000,000
TH-13/CR 5 Interchange, MN 1,000,000
Town of Clarkstown, New City Hamlet, NY to Revitalize South Main Street 500,000
Town of Lexington United Traffic Plan--Phase I, SC 1,000,000
Town of Tamworth, Chocorua Village Safety Project, NH 500,000
Traffic Light--Piedmont Road and Edmond Road, OK 100,000
Trinity River Vision Bridges, Fort Worth, TX 1,000,000
US 101 Safety Improvements at Deer Park, WA 980,000
US 12 Safety Improvements, WA 3,000,000
US 17 Widening, FL 2,000,000
US 2 Safety Improvements, WA 2,000,000
US Highway 30 Improvements, Whiteside County, IL 500,000
US 61 Fort Madison Bypass Interchange at Highway J40, IA 1,000,000
US Highway 59 Safety Improvements, MN 1,000,000
Urban Collector Road along I-10 North, MS 2,000,000
US 169 Highway Widening Environmental Assessment, OK 1,000,000
US Route 64, TN 1,500,000
US-191, Moab to Crescent Junction, UT 2,000,000
US-69 in Bourbon, Crawford, and Cherokee Counties, KS 750,000
V&T Railway Reconstruction Project, NV 500,000
Vermont Route 15 Improvements in Johnson and Essex Junction, VT 3,000,000
West Point Defense Facility Access Improvements, MS 1,000,000
West Virginia Route 10, WV 5,000,000
West Virginia Route 9, WV 7,000,000
Western Beltway Transportation Infrastructure Plan, MS 500,000
Western Kentucky University [WKU], University-Community Bikeway Project, KY 1,000,000
Whiterock Sustainable Trail, Guthrie County, IA 400,000
Zanesville State Street Bridge Renovation and Repair Project, OH 500,000
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